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From: aleks@well.UUCP (Brian J. Witt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Talking to Workbench (in left field)
Summary: menus on Wb drawers
Keywords: Workbench, snapshot, upgrade, 1.4
Message-ID: <7905@well.UUCP>
Date: 11 Dec 88 18:40:49 GMT
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Reply-To: aleks@well.UUCP (Brian J. Witt)
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Several people have commented..
>
>I also like to rearrange my icons and windows.  What I don't like, however,
>is having to select all these things (ESPECIALLY WITHOUT A SELECT ALL)
>and then do a snapshot.  It would be nice if Workbench would automatically
>update this stuff.
>
>Also, how about standard system gadgets for ZOOM?  
>Something like in excellence!
>
>
>					William B. Norris IV

  What if...  a menu was attached to the window, ala LightSpeed "C"
and SunTools (or is it really X, not sure).  The menu might have
       -- zoom
       -- select all 
       -- list by TEXT/multi-column text/Icons
       -- move to shared screen
       -- zoom in/out    <-- great for tall (morerows) workbenches

And there could be the standard open/close/resize/shift somewhat off screen
mode selectors if you wanted.  Boy, wuld this confuse some people :-)

  What if...  DOS (RAM, floppy, hard, recoverable) Disk drives hd a 
packet type of "Return to me when a file is closed in this directory
that this file handle refers to".  Then WB wouldjust have a bunch
of outstanding packets tat would be replied to when the directory was
updated.  Then maybe the layers library could have a similar message
(no polling of layers) when a layer requires refreshing.  Now, about
this GURU # 07000004... 8-)

  Just some thoughts...

--- I bought my Amiga for the multi-tasking,
--- but the salesperson sez it does graphics, too!

--- brian